Another day, another free music station. 100sation Online Webradio heralds with the tagline “24h/24 POP ROCK SOUL ELECTRO LOUNGE”.

Listening started off promisingly. A cute, pop girl song. I was lulled. This station could be good background music, attractive wallpaper. But then the station descended into end-to-end commercial horror. Digitally pitch corrected singers’ voices (think Cher). Recognizably top 40 synth sounds, grown to new levels of grating annoying-ness from overuse & overplay. Boom, boom, boom. Over the top, no feel, no heart. Almost like you should be paid to hear it rather than listen to the free music.

Then it got worse – Dante’s lowest musical hell – another remix of “What is Love?” comes on (not the Dee-Lite song, but the 1993 song from Haddaway). This track is so tired – you can hear it from any bad DJ in any anonymous nightclub – please DJs of the world, can we put it out to pasture?

And then on comes the announcers voice – ah, it’s a French radio station. Why am I having such bad luck with French radio stations? The French make some great music. If you know a good French online radio station, help me! – please add it to the comments below. (A friend of mine used to listen to a great one from Paris.)

I’d completely write off the station, but in the midst of listening hell, on came this beautiful French track. It had style & feel.

If you love simple, happy, silly music (and I use that term loosely) – think I’m a Barbie Girl – try 100sation Online Webradio.

You can find 100sation Online Webradio in iTunes in Radio under the Eclectic section.

Postscript: Oh no, it’s then end of the review and I’m still listening to 100sation. I’m tapping my foot, I’m smiling. Cute track. It’s Robbie Williams. I’ve contracted infectious pop-itis! 100sations got me in the end…